Context

During the 60’s and 70’s, in America, women would get treated less than men. A main problem that women would have is that they’d get paid less.

”In 1961 he created the President’s Commission on the Status of Women and appointed Eleanor Roosevelt to lead it. Its report, issued in 1963, firmly supported the nuclear family and preparing women for motherhood” (Burkett).

 “But it also documented a national pattern of employment discrimination, unequal pay, legal inequality, and marriage  support services for working women that needed to be corrected through legislative guarantees of equal pay for equal work, equal job opportunities, and expanded child-care services” (Burkett).

Women were expected to stay at home and take care of the children. A nuclear family is a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit.

Women would struggle to get paid as equally as men and to get child care. This would make home life difficult for women, especially single mothers.

Women’s equal rights parade, 1977, The Collector

There are women protesting for equal rights. The sign the women are holding in the protest says “ Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex”. The sign says women’s rights should not be abridged, not fully listened to.  This shows that women wanted to be seen and heard, so that they may have an equal amount of rights and responsibilities.